Explorations into Attachment Classifications

ISBN-13: 9783659665691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.

Young Alexa

Opis

Attachment theory has implications for relational functioning across the lifespan. However, attachment theory describes only the observable, behavioural aspects of attachment, illustrating little about the internal, psychic world of the individual. Using the Attachment Story Completion Test to analyse at risk children aged 8-12 years in a South African setting, coupled with an object relational analysis, the author investigates the way in which attachment is traditionally classified in discrete categories as well as our understanding of the internal experience of insecure attachments.

O autorze

Alexa Young is a practicing clinical psychologist. She completed her degree in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand in 2011. She has an interest in issues of attachment and psychodynamic psychotherapy and how these subjects can be successfully applied to the South African population.